Classifications

• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
  • B65C—LABELLING OR TAGGING MACHINES, APPARATUS, OR PROCESSES
  • B65C9/00—Details of labelling machines or apparatus
  • B65C9/08—Label feeding
  • B65C9/10—Label magazines
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
  • B65B—MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING
  • B65B61/00—Auxiliary devices, not otherwise provided for, for operating on sheets, blanks, webs, binding material, containers or packages
  • B65B61/20—Auxiliary devices, not otherwise provided for, for operating on sheets, blanks, webs, binding material, containers or packages for adding cards, coupons or other inserts to package contents
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
  • B65C—LABELLING OR TAGGING MACHINES, APPARATUS, OR PROCESSES
  • B65C1/00—Labelling flat essentially-rigid surfaces
  • B65C1/02—Affixing labels to one flat surface of articles, e.g. of packages, of flat bands
  • B65C1/021—Affixing labels to one flat surface of articles, e.g. of packages, of flat bands the label being applied by movement of the labelling head towards the article
  • B65C1/023—Affixing labels to one flat surface of articles, e.g. of packages, of flat bands the label being applied by movement of the labelling head towards the article and being supplied from a stack
• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
  • A61M—DEVICES FOR INTRODUCING MEDIA INTO, OR ONTO, THE BODY; DEVICES FOR TRANSDUCING BODY MEDIA OR FOR TAKING MEDIA FROM THE BODY; DEVICES FOR PRODUCING OR ENDING SLEEP OR STUPOR
  • A61M2202/00—Special media to be introduced, removed or treated
  • A61M2202/04—Liquids
  • A61M2202/0413—Blood
  • A61M2202/0445—Proteins
  • A61M2202/0447—Glycoproteins
  • A61M2202/0449—Fibrinogen, also called factor 1
• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
  • A61M—DEVICES FOR INTRODUCING MEDIA INTO, OR ONTO, THE BODY; DEVICES FOR TRANSDUCING BODY MEDIA OR FOR TAKING MEDIA FROM THE BODY; DEVICES FOR PRODUCING OR ENDING SLEEP OR STUPOR
  • A61M2202/00—Special media to be introduced, removed or treated
  • A61M2202/04—Liquids
  • A61M2202/0413—Blood
  • A61M2202/0456—Lipoprotein
  • A61M2202/046—Low-density lipoprotein
• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
  • A61M—DEVICES FOR INTRODUCING MEDIA INTO, OR ONTO, THE BODY; DEVICES FOR TRANSDUCING BODY MEDIA OR FOR TAKING MEDIA FROM THE BODY; DEVICES FOR PRODUCING OR ENDING SLEEP OR STUPOR
  • A61M2202/00—Special media to be introduced, removed or treated
  • A61M2202/04—Liquids
  • A61M2202/0496—Urine
  • A61M2202/0498—Urea

Definitions

• the invention relates to a method and a device for assigning binding labels to shrub plants.
• binding labels can contain, for example, information which is important for the implementation of license agreements. Basically, it is possible to insert binding labels into the packaging when packaging plants. On the other hand, binding labels could be attached to plant shoots during or before packaging, which then protrude from the packaging. In both cases, however, it is tedious to ascertain during a final inspection of the packaged plants whether each plant has been given one and only one binding label.
• the object of the invention is therefore to assign plant packaging to binding labels in a clear and labor-saving manner.
• a binding label to which a binding wire is attached for later attachment to a plant, is attached to a plant packaging by means of an adhesive label covering the binding wire which the plant is taken out at the planting site.
• the binding label can be attached manually by one person applying a binding label to the plant packaging with one hand and sticking the adhesive label over the binding wire with the other hand.
• the adhesion of the adhesive label to the plant packaging is not impaired by the binding wire in between and is still sufficient in the case of adhesive labels of conventional size even if the adhesive label is also stuck to a part of the binding label to which the binding wire is attached is.
• This covering of part of the binding label has the advantage that the binding label, like the adhesive label, is held flat against the plant packaging, so that, for example, with optoelectronic African devices of a known type can be reliably checked in a packaging system to determine whether each plant packaging has been provided with one and only one binding label in addition to the adhesive label.
• At least one label container in which binding labels are stacked and held ready in a position in which their binding wires are arranged in the same direction
• An adhesive label dispenser for pressing an adhesive label onto the binding wire and the plant packaging.
• Fig. 1 is a plan view of the system
• Fig. 2 is a side view in the direction of arrow 'II in
• Fig. 1 shows the enlarged partial view in the area of
• FIG. 4 the view in the direction of arrow IV in FIG. 3
• FIG. 5 the view in the direction of arrow V in FIG. 3
• FIG. 6 shows the enlarged partial section VI-VI in FIG. 1.
• the system shown is used to put balled shrub-like plants 10 in a bag 12 each made of shrinkable film and to close the bag in the area between plant shoots and root balls by locally shrinking.
• the bags 12 are, still connected to one another, formed in a tubular film web, which is conveyed upright in a vertical longitudinal plane horizontally through the system and is slit open at the top.
• the individual bags 12 are delimited by vertical weld seams 14 which end below the upper bag edge regions 16 which are separated from one another by the slitting.
• Each bag 12 has a viewing surface 18 facing the viewer of FIG. 2, onto which an adhesive label 20 is to be glued.
• Each bag 12 is also to be provided with a binding label 22 which can be attached to the plant 10 when it is removed from the bag 12 at the planting location.
• Each binding label 22 has an eyelet 24 in which a binding wire 26 is fastened.
• the adhesive label 20 should be glued over the binding wire 26 and, for the sake of safety, also over the area of the eyelet 24.
• shrinking the bag 12 should eventually form a neck 28; below and also above the neck 28, the bag 12 should not be affected by the shrinkage, or should be affected only relatively little.
• the system shown has an elongated machine frame 30, at the beginning of which, in FIGS. 1 and 2 on the right, a vertical decoiler 32 for the film web is mounted, in which the bags 12 are formed.
• the film web runs step by step over a tension roller 34 and over deflection rollers 36 and on one vertical support surface 38 along to a vertical tubular expansion body 40, which in plan view according to FIG. 1 has the shape of a ship's hull pointed at both ends.
• the expansion body 40 engages between the upper edge regions 16 of the bag and spreads them apart after each conveying step of the film web above a bag 12 to such an extent that the relevant bag 12 opens to accommodate a balled plant 10.
• a winding reel 44 is arranged above the rear end of the machine frame 30 in FIGS.
• a common motor 46 is provided for the movement of the film forming the bags 12 through the system and for the rotation of the take-up reel 44.
• the adhesive label dispenser 48 is of a known type and is therefore not shown in detail.
• the binding label dispenser 50 has six label containers 52, each of which is attached at one end to an arm 56 which projects radially from a vertical shaft 54.
• the shaft 54 is driven in such a manner is via a gear 58 by a stepping motor 60, * that in each case one of the label as long as container 52 occupies an accurately defined fest ⁇ removal position, until it is emptied voll ⁇ constantly.
• each label container 52 there is a vertical one on its narrow side facing away from the associated arm 56 Slit 62 formed, which opens into a bottom opening 64.
• each label container 52 contains a multiplicity of binding labels 22 lying flat on top of one another, the binding wires 26 of which protrude outwards through the slot 62.
• each label container 52 contains a weight 66 made of metal in its vertical slot 62, which loads the binding labels 22 and via the eyelets 24, which are also made of metal, is in electrically conductive connection with the associated, likewise metallic or metallized binding wires 26.
• the label containers 52 themselves are electrically non-conductive.
• Each of the weights 66 is connected via a flexible line 68 to a pole of an electrical power source, the second pole of which is connected to a contact 70 via a circuit (not shown).
• the binding wire 26 of the lowermost binding label 22 in the label container 52 which assumes the removal position, lies on the contact 70, whereby an electrical circuit is closed.
• This circuit is interrupted as soon as the last binding label 22 in the relevant label container 52 has been used up. This generates a signal which can rotate the shaft 54 until a label container 52 which has not yet been emptied has reached the removal position.
• the contact 70 is arranged at the end of a rail 71, which consists of electrically non-conductive material and is curved in an arcuate manner about the axis A, that when the shaft 54 is rotated, the binding wires 26 of this not yet emptied label container 52 run onto the rail 71 until they run finally reach contact 70. As a result, the circuit mentioned is closed again and, as a result, the rotation about the axis A is interrupted.
• the binding label dispenser 50 has a stamp 72, which in the example shown is designed as a suction cup and via a ven, not shown - til is connected to a vacuum source.
• the punch 72 is attached to the end of an arm 74, which along the vertical guides 76 and horizontal guides 78 versc fife-bbar and is controlled by a slot 80 such that the stamp 72 at each work cycle from below "forth the property in the removal position label holder 52 approaches, the bottom binding label 22 through the bottom opening 64
• the ** live chain dispenser 48 adheres an adhesive label 20 to the visible surface 18, which covers the binding wire 26 and the eyelet 24 of the bino label 22, so that it is securely attached to the bag 12.
• the arm 74 can be driven by a motor 82 which is fastened to a column 84 which also supports the shaft 54 and its bearing.
• the motor 82 is controlled by light barriers or other sensors, which ensure that both label dispensers 48 and 50 act when a bag 12 has reached the working area of the stamp 72.
• a longitudinal conveyor 86 for example in the form of a conveyor belt, is provided to bring the plants 10, which are to be put into a bag 12 each, which rises like a ramp to a transverse conveyor 88 and allows the plants 10 to fall one behind the other at intervals.
• the cross conveyor 88 is in the illustrated example an open-topped channel in which a plant 10 can be displaced radially in the direction of the vertical axis B of an immersion tube 92 by a slide 90 that can be moved pneumatically, for example.
• the dip tube 92 is arranged coaxially with the tubular expansion body 40 and can be moved up and down by a drive 94, for example a pneumatic piston-cylinder unit, between a take-over position in which the dip tube 92 only protrudes into the expansion body 40 from above and a lower end position, in which the immersion tube extends far into the bag 12 held open by the expansion body 40, if necessary almost to the bottom thereof.
• a drive 94 for example a pneumatic piston-cylinder unit
• the immersion tube 92 has a semi-tubular section 96, to which an also semi-tubular conveyor trough 98 is assigned.
• This conveyor trough 98 is connected at its lower edge to the dip tube 92 by a joint 100 with a horizontal pivot axis C.
• the conveying trough 98 opens obliquely into the immersion tube 98, so that this can take over a plant 10 from the cross conveyor 88.
• the conveyor trough 98 is guided in such a way that it supplements the semi-tubular section 96 to a completely closed pipe section when the immersion pipe 92 is lowered. As a result, the plant 10 is forced to participate in the downward movement of the dip tube 92 and can only slide downward in it.
• 92 is a piston-like stamp 102 associated with the dip tube, which normally assumes a rest position in the upper end region of the semi-tubular section 96 or even above it.
• the plunger 102 is connected to a Kolbehz liner unit 104 which moves it downwards during or immediately after the lowering of the dip tube 92, so that the plunger 102 presses the plant 10 with certainty pushes down until your root ball is on the bottom of bag 12.
• a holding device 106 Arranged below the expansion body 40 is a holding device 106, the task of which is to hold the bag 12 and the plant 10 introduced into it, preferably at their root ball, while the dip tube 92 is moved upwards again into its takeover position.
• the holding device 106 has a pair of jaws 108 which, for example, can be moved pneumatically towards and away from one another.
• the two nozzle groups 42 are supplied with hot air by a blower 116 each time a bag 12 is stretched into its area of influence. Careful thermal insulation of the nozzle groups 42 prevents excessive cooling in the intervals at which the fans 116 are at a standstill.
• the edge regions 16 of the bag are torn from the correspondingly perforated or otherwise prepared film web and wound up by the reel 44.
• the filled and shrunk bags 28 are separated from one another by means of a separating device 118 and conveyed further by a longitudinal conveyor 120 and finally by a cross conveyor 122. .

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• Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
• Mechanical Engineering (AREA)
• Labeling Devices (AREA)
• Basic Packing Technique (AREA)
• Packaging Of Special Articles (AREA)
• Breeding Of Plants And Reproduction By Means Of Culturing (AREA)
• Package Closures (AREA)
• Portable Nailing Machines And Staplers (AREA)
• Supports For Plants (AREA)
• Cultivation Of Plants (AREA)
• Management, Administration, Business Operations System, And Electronic Commerce (AREA)
• Cultivation Receptacles Or Flower-Pots, Or Pots For Seedlings (AREA)

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